NOON is when the sun is the highest point in the sky. Daylight savings time shifts that one hour.
I never liked DST. I remember discussions in the 70s gas crunch.
All energy saving promises turned out to be completely unfounded in studies after implementation.
It comes down to if you want more daylight when you get home from work or not. Probably a muslim conspiracy to keep them from leaving work early.
I personally dislike DST but if they do anything, I’d say move it a half hour and leave it.
I think it’s a fantastic proposition, in fact I’d love to get rid of DST all together. The winter dark time in MA is debilitating - the clinical term for it is SAD ( seasonal affective disorder). I used to step inside a tanning booth just for a taste of sunlight before I could afford to get away to the real sun.
Unintended consequences?
Yea, but they’re going to tax you for that extra winter daylight.
We need to get rid of daylight savings time once and for all. It is a stupid idea. I remember a few years ago when Congress changed the time in the fall for coming off daylight savings time. They actually had a press release where they said they were going to “give us more sun.” I have news for them. They aren’t giving us anything! Who do these people think they are? God?
-PJ
“Benefits of having daylight saving time throughout the year could include energy savings and less seasonal depression, proponents suggest.”
Studies have never found strong evidence that “day light savings time” saves either energy or money. What it gives at one end of the year, it takes at the other end.
When the sun is as close as it will be to being directly overhead, at any location, that is “mid day” in the natural sense, not matter how much people mess with their clocks. The global time zones are set to approximate that phenomena in one hour increments. Those one hour increments are as natural as one hour increments can be.
No one should have laws that say do as we say, not as the natural time of earth says.
Instead of messing with the clocks, people can voluntarily - businesses, schools, government offices, growing to towns & counties, ect - change their usual schedules, so that at one part of the year, they “start” work/school/business/ect at one hour earlier, and another part of the year they start one hour later.
But leave the f%^^$ time of day alone.
Play hell on tv schedules! Your 10 o’clock show would be on at 9 or 11!
The most frequent argument I’ve heard against year-round DST is kids waiting for the morning school bus in the pitch dark for a couple of months. But they manage to pull it off in Alaska!
I love this.